# nasturtium
## English

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### Alternative forms

* nasturtian, nasturtion (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle English nasturcium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nasˈtɜːʃəm/, /nəsˈtɜːʃəm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /næsˈtɝʃəm/, /nəsˈtɝʃəm/

### Noun

nasturtium (plural nasturtiums or nasturtia)
* The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
** 1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!‎:To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!
** 1922, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “At the Bay”, in The Garden Party, London: Constable & Company, page 1:Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
* A plant in this genus, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
    Synonyms: monks cress, Indian cress
* Any of the plants in the genus Nasturtium that includes watercress.

#### Derived terms

* garden nasturtium

#### Translations

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#### References

* “nasturtium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2003.

## Latin
### Etymology

From nāris (“nose”) +‎ torquere (“to twist”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /naːsˈtur.ti.um/, [näːs̠ˈt̪ʊrt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /nasˈtur.t͡si.um/, [näsˈt̪urt̪͡s̪ium]

### Noun

nāsturtium n (genitive nāsturtiī or nāsturtī); second declension
* cress

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: nastorciu
*** Gallurese: nastruzzu
** Old Neapolitan: nasturçe
** Sicilian: mastrozzu
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: *mastois, *nastois
*** Middle French: nastois
*** Walloon: mastouche f
* Occitano-Romance:
** Old Occitan: *nastorç
*** Occitan: nastor
**** → Piedmontese: nastór
* West Iberian:
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: mastuerzo
** Old Galician-Portuguese:
*** Galician: mestruzo, mestranzo
*** Portuguese: mastruço, menstruço
** Old Spanish: mastuerço
*** Spanish: mastuerzo, nastuerzo
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian:
*** Campidanese: martuzzu
*** Logudorese: nastruttu
* Borrowings:
** → Old English: nasturcium
*** >? Middle English: nasturcium, naisturcium, narstucium, narstuscium
**** English: nasturtium (archaic nasturtian, nasturtion)
** → Catalan: nasturci
** → Greek: ναστούρτιο (nastoúrtio)
** → Middle French: nasturce, nasturtion
*** French: nasturce (obsolete)
** → Middle French: naritort (calque)
*** French: nasitort
** → Italian: nasturzio
** → Old Occitan: nazitort (calque)
*** Occitan: nasitòrt
** → Polish: nasturcja
** → Spanish: nasturcio

### References

* “nasturtium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “menstruço”, in Grande Dicionário Houaiss ‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Antônio Houaiss, 2012, via UOL, etim.